Opinion: Indigenous Cultural Police and Joseph Boyden
By Maurice Switzer The Indigenous Cultural Police are at it again! Their latest target is “Through Black Spruce”, a film to be premiered this coming...
People don’t learn on stat holidays
By Maurice Switzer Each year when I was a student at Lakefield Public School, all 300 members of our student body—from kindergarten to Grade 8—had...
Book Review: 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act
By Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith In “21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality,” the...
Book Review: Claiming Anishinaabe: decolonizing the human spirit
Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit Reviewed by Deanna Marie Therriault Claiming Anishinaabe: Decolonizing the Human Spirit, is the latest publication by Indigenous academic and...
Opinion: I shaved my head to start anew
By Jolene Banning I grab the hair clippers and buzz off a small test patch of hair at my left ear, to see if I...
14 days and 300 jingles Later, I walked into the arbour a dancer
By Jolene Banning 14 days and 300 jingles until I dance at the annual traditional Fort William First Nation pow wow. When I signed up...
Book review: Bowwow Powwow
By Carrie MacKenzie “Bowwow Powwow” by Brenda J. Child, illustrated by Jonathan Thunder and translated into Ojibwe by Gordon Jourdain tells the story of Windy...